Metric
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Metric may refer to:
  • the metric system
    Metric system
    The metric system is an international decimalised system of measurement. France was first to adopt a metric system, in 1799, and a metric system is now the official system of measurement, used in almost every country in the world...

     of measurement
    • International System of Units
      International System of Units
      The International System of Units is the modern form of the metric system and is generally a system of units of measurement devised around seven base units and the convenience of the number ten. The older metric system included several groups of units...

      , or Système International (SI), the modern form of the metric system
    • Metric ton, a measurement of mass equal to 1,000 kg
  • an analytical measurement intended to quantify the state of a system. For example "population density" is one metric which may be used to describe a city.
  • Metric (mathematics)
    Metric (mathematics)
    In mathematics, a metric or distance function is a function which defines a distance between elements of a set. A set with a metric is called a metric space. A metric induces a topology on a set but not all topologies can be generated by a metric...

    , an abstraction of the notion of distance in a metric space
    • Metric tensor
      Metric tensor
      In the mathematical field of differential geometry, a metric tensor is a type of function defined on a manifold which takes as input a pair of tangent vectors v and w and produces a real number g in a way that generalizes many of the familiar properties of the dot product of vectors in Euclidean...

      , in mathematics, a symmetric rank-2 tensor, used to measure length and angle
  • Metric (band)
    Metric (band)
    Metric is a Canadian indie rock and New Wave band founded in 1998 in Toronto. The band has also at various times been based in Montreal, London, New York City and Los Angeles...

    , a Canadian indie rock band
  • Metrics (networking)
    Metrics (networking)
    Metrics is a property of a route in computer networking, consisting of any value used by routing algorithms to determine whether one route should perform better than another. The routing table stores only the best possible routes, while link-state or topological databases may store all other...

    , set of properties of a communication path
  • Font metrics, a group of properties describing a font
  • Reuse metrics
    Reuse metrics
    Many metrics and models have been developed for software reuse and reusability. A metric is a quantitative indicator of an attribute of a thing. A model specifies relationships among metrics...

    , a quantitative indicator of an attribute for software reuse and reusability
  • Router metrics
    Router metrics
    Router metrics are metrics used by a router to make routing decisions. It is typically one of many fields in a routing table.Router metrics can contain any number of values that help the router determine the best route among multiple routes to a destination...

    , used by a router to make routing decisions
  • Software metric
    Software metric
    A software metric is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications. Since quantitative measurements are essential in all sciences, there is a continuous effort by computer science practitioners and theoreticians to bring similar approaches to software development...

    s, a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications
  • Performance metrics, a measure of an organization's activities and performance.
  • METRIC
    METRIC
    METRIC is a computer model that uses Landsat satellite data to compute and map evapotranspiration developed by Richard Allen et.al. at the University of Idaho....

     a computer model (Mapping EvapoTranspiration at high Resolution with Internalized Calibration) that uses Landsat satellite data to compute and map evapotranspiration (ET).

See also

  • Meter (disambiguation)
    Meter (disambiguation)
    Meter or metre from Ancient Greek μέτρον may refer to:* Metre , a unit of measurement of length* Metre Rule, or International Rule , created for measuring and rating of yachts in sailing...

  • Units of measurement
    Units of measurement
    A unit of measurement is a definite magnitude of a physical quantity, defined and adopted by convention and/or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same physical quantity. Any other value of the physical quantity can be expressed as a simple multiple of the unit of...

  • Metric expansion of space
    Metric expansion of space
    The metric expansion of space is the increase of distance between distant parts of the universe with time. It is an intrinsic expansion—that is, it is defined by the relative separation of parts of the universe and not by motion "outward" into preexisting space...

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